BBC Article on Girl Gamers

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 13:35 23/2/2004.

Just been given the heads up by HappyBunny, that the BBC has written another great article on girl gamers. The article begins with in many minds, the most famous girl gamer Anja Maller, aka Vildkatten. It then discusses the domination of the scene by males and onto the difficulties faced by girl gamers in the CS scene.

But there are stereotypes. Counter-Strike is 99% male so females that do come into this world feel overpowered or that they are not welcomed. If people just opened their minds and didn't see us as being male or female, it would be much better.

The article is a great read and definitely worth taking 5 minutes out of your tight IRC schedule to check out. To read the full article head over here to the BBC's website.

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	Scrappy Sniper's Alley 13:42 23/2/2004	That deffo Hunnybunny and not our gorgeous HappyBunny? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Krispy 14:03 23/2/2004	Counter-Strike is 99% male, so females that do come into this world feel overpowered or that they are not welcomed thats cos u should be in the kitchen b***h. ;\| /controversy [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NoToRiOuS 2 COOL 4 SKOOL UKTerrorist 14:10 23/2/2004	damn it, happybunny to you lot but shes my HUNNYBUNNY :D:D:D ^^ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DooMeh Lite 14:17 23/2/2004	im a guy gamer [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Venomous BLACKLiGHT 15:04 23/2/2004	they want their own leagues, but also wanted to be treated the same, aint gona happen. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MRmagoo 15:05 23/2/2004	vildkatten is actuall f***ing good at cs too, many may remember she played in the clan afterlife and could certainly hang with the best at the time. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Undone^ ForsakeN 15:17 23/2/2004	kenny speaks the truth [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	LEEZER 15:40 23/2/2004	couldnt be arsed reading it cos i think the whole girl gamer thing is a joke. i mean its ok for them to play the game but there own leagues etc is stupid but the blonde one would get a jab in the ass ! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 15:43 23/2/2004	rofl rofl rofl I have been playing counter strike for years, and one day my girlfriend decided that one way to battle me was online. I have to say after a while she was getting very good and even challenged some of the best experienced players of Counter Strike. Stig Challenged the best players????? battle me online???? PLayed for years???? lies lies lies [ Score: 1, funny \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 15:44 23/2/2004	article is crap - comments are priceless [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Montaver theb0g 16:35 23/2/2004	Shame the BBC edits out any negative, perhaps less articulate comments (flames), as it would make a highly amusing section to what is otherwise the same melodramatic, oversensitised crap one comes to expect from the worlds large news networks. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hairy Rush! 16:40 23/2/2004	Cant see how they feel over powered if there skilled enough to compete.. And the part about being over powered? hmm i wouldnt of thought so.. the amount of psycho irc lovers would do anything for a girl gamer to acknowledge them. Aint that right tarl :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	jammin 16:46 23/2/2004	Give her a b***h slap n get her back in the kitchen!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Happy-Bunny 16:48 23/2/2004	i just prefer to play against other females- much more fun- nothin sexist in that - i think its just a competitive thing. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Scrappy Sniper's Alley 16:51 23/2/2004	rolls on back waiting for tummy to be scratched [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hairy Rush! 16:53 23/2/2004	Not that many girl clans tho is there? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Happy-Bunny 16:56 23/2/2004	nah not really - we r low on players too :/ but we got enuff to go to lans etc /me tickles Scrappy's tum tum.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dizzee 17:01 23/2/2004	women player models! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 17:17 23/2/2004	back to the washing machine. slag! [ Score: 1, funny \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Choke\|MaT Choke 17:22 23/2/2004	But there are stereotypes. Counter-Strike is 99% male so females that do come into this world feel overpowered or that they are not welcomed. That's stereotypical in itself, there's a hell of a lot more girlgamers than that, most choose not to make themselves known as a girlgamer. Could have sworn I saw an article in a newspaper recently which said that 35% of gamers are women. Fair enough that's gamers in general on games like Dance Mat and stuff, but there's definitely a lot more female CS players than people think there are. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bard- 17:26 23/2/2004	Why cant girl gamers get out of the "chatroom alias" stage. -=sEXy_GIRL2K4=- !!!!! ^_^ wooo Dane Bowers! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 17:34 23/2/2004	What classes as a girl gamer in that though MaT? My sister, who gets owned 5-0 PERFECT on tekken once a year? (yeah, i know im cool) I'm always dubious when people exaggerate the numbers of something like girl gamers when all the girls I know wouldnt go near a computer except to read the lastest worm email, send it to me and all my mates, open it, wonder why then their computer shuts down every 15 seconds and then call on me to come fix it >:\| yes im bitter [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shotti theb0g 17:49 23/2/2004	depends what game if i remember right, 55% of people who play the sims online are girls [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 17:56 23/2/2004	DooMeh Lite 14:17, 23/2/2004 im a girl gamer we all know we dont care [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-Naz- fightclubclan 20:55 23/2/2004	Hopefully my comment will get on that news item :D on another note, i remember playing on a usp_map server a few weeks ago, and a girl-gamer (i assume) called [GFISKFKLSC]Katie joined and straight away said "hi, im a girl". She seemed a bit shocked and offended when i replied with "so?" and she prompty left. People like that are f*ing lame. She must have thought i was jedib*h. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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	Scrappy Sniper's Alley 13:42 23/2/2004	That deffo Hunnybunny and not our gorgeous HappyBunny? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Krispy 14:03 23/2/2004	Counter-Strike is 99% male, so females that do come into this world feel overpowered or that they are not welcomed thats cos u should be in the kitchen b***h. ;\| /controversy [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NoToRiOuS 2 COOL 4 SKOOL UKTerrorist 14:10 23/2/2004	damn it, happybunny to you lot but shes my HUNNYBUNNY :D:D:D ^^ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DooMeh Lite 14:17 23/2/2004	im a guy gamer [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Venomous BLACKLiGHT 15:04 23/2/2004	they want their own leagues, but also wanted to be treated the same, aint gona happen. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MRmagoo 15:05 23/2/2004	vildkatten is actuall f***ing good at cs too, many may remember she played in the clan afterlife and could certainly hang with the best at the time. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Undone^ ForsakeN 15:17 23/2/2004	kenny speaks the truth [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	LEEZER 15:40 23/2/2004	couldnt be arsed reading it cos i think the whole girl gamer thing is a joke. i mean its ok for them to play the game but there own leagues etc is stupid but the blonde one would get a jab in the ass ! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 15:43 23/2/2004	rofl rofl rofl I have been playing counter strike for years, and one day my girlfriend decided that one way to battle me was online. I have to say after a while she was getting very good and even challenged some of the best experienced players of Counter Strike. Stig Challenged the best players????? battle me online???? PLayed for years???? lies lies lies [ Score: 1, funny \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PFCalcio THX 15:44 23/2/2004	article is crap - comments are priceless [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Montaver theb0g 16:35 23/2/2004	Shame the BBC edits out any negative, perhaps less articulate comments (flames), as it would make a highly amusing section to what is otherwise the same melodramatic, oversensitised crap one comes to expect from the worlds large news networks. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hairy Rush! 16:40 23/2/2004	Cant see how they feel over powered if there skilled enough to compete.. And the part about being over powered? hmm i wouldnt of thought so.. the amount of psycho irc lovers would do anything for a girl gamer to acknowledge them. Aint that right tarl :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	jammin 16:46 23/2/2004	Give her a b***h slap n get her back in the kitchen!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Happy-Bunny 16:48 23/2/2004	i just prefer to play against other females- much more fun- nothin sexist in that - i think its just a competitive thing. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Scrappy Sniper's Alley 16:51 23/2/2004	rolls on back waiting for tummy to be scratched [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hairy Rush! 16:53 23/2/2004	Not that many girl clans tho is there? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Happy-Bunny 16:56 23/2/2004	nah not really - we r low on players too :/ but we got enuff to go to lans etc /me tickles Scrappy's tum tum.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dizzee 17:01 23/2/2004	women player models! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 17:17 23/2/2004	back to the washing machine. slag! [ Score: 1, funny \| Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Choke\|MaT Choke 17:22 23/2/2004	But there are stereotypes. Counter-Strike is 99% male so females that do come into this world feel overpowered or that they are not welcomed. That's stereotypical in itself, there's a hell of a lot more girlgamers than that, most choose not to make themselves known as a girlgamer. Could have sworn I saw an article in a newspaper recently which said that 35% of gamers are women. Fair enough that's gamers in general on games like Dance Mat and stuff, but there's definitely a lot more female CS players than people think there are. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bard- 17:26 23/2/2004	Why cant girl gamers get out of the "chatroom alias" stage. -=sEXy_GIRL2K4=- !!!!! ^_^ wooo Dane Bowers! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 17:34 23/2/2004	What classes as a girl gamer in that though MaT? My sister, who gets owned 5-0 PERFECT on tekken once a year? (yeah, i know im cool) I'm always dubious when people exaggerate the numbers of something like girl gamers when all the girls I know wouldnt go near a computer except to read the lastest worm email, send it to me and all my mates, open it, wonder why then their computer shuts down every 15 seconds and then call on me to come fix it >:\| yes im bitter [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shotti theb0g 17:49 23/2/2004	depends what game if i remember right, 55% of people who play the sims online are girls [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 17:56 23/2/2004	DooMeh Lite 14:17, 23/2/2004 im a girl gamer we all know we dont care [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	-Naz- fightclubclan 20:55 23/2/2004	Hopefully my comment will get on that news item :D on another note, i remember playing on a usp_map server a few weeks ago, and a girl-gamer (i assume) called [GFISKFKLSC]Katie joined and straight away said "hi, im a girl". She seemed a bit shocked and offended when i replied with "so?" and she prompty left. People like that are f*ing lame. She must have thought i was jedib*h. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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